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Full Idea
Coherentists try to provide an explication of epistemic rationality in terms of a set of deductive and probabilistic relations among beliefs and properties such as simplicity, conservativeness, and explanatory power.
Gist of Idea
Coherentists seek relations among beliefs that are simple, conservative and explanatory
Source
Richard Foley (Justified Belief as Responsible Belief [2005], p.317)
Book Ref
'Contemporary Debates in Epistemology', ed/tr. Steup,M/Sosa,E [Blackwell 2005], p.317
A Reaction
I have always like the coherentist view of justification, and now I see that this has led me to the question of explanation, which in turn has led me to essentialism. It's all coming together. Watch this space. 'Explanatory' is the key to everything!
| 12800 | Externalists want to understand knowledge, Internalists want to understand justification [Foley] |
| 12801 | Coherentists seek relations among beliefs that are simple, conservative and explanatory [Foley] |
| 12802 | We aren't directly pragmatic about belief, but pragmatic about the deliberation which precedes it [Foley] |
| 12803 | Justification comes from acceptable procedures, given practical constraints [Foley] |
| 19708 | Rational internal belief is conviction that a proposition enhances a belief system [Foley, by Vahid] |